After cooling down from his marathon campaign, iCON The Mic King returns with “Drifting With The Tide,” the first song in his new Headphone Classic Series. With this new series, iCON has decided, rather than release a mixtape, to feature individual songs, pairing them with a visuals and videos to give fans a complete look at each song. “Drifting With The Tide” is the first song in the series, and…
New and exclusive DownCast video content is now available for download of Country music icon George Strait discussing his latest album, Twang, to be released next Tuesday, Aug. 11. The unique footage, edited by Travis Television and distributed via AristoMedia’s DownCast service, features a rare interview with Strait as he discusses his highly anticipated new release, which was bumped up for an Aug. 11 street date. The first single from…
Tha Ghostman was born in November of 1986. Raised in Hagerstown, MD, he started writing his own rap music at 13 years old and has been doing it ever since. He now not only writes his own music, he records and produces it himself. His style would be hard to describe because he’s always trying something new with different songs. Definitely look for more music in the future, Tha Ghostman…
Thu 8/27 – The Cellar Door – Visalia, CA Fri 8/28 – Bunkhouse Saloon – Las Vegas, NV Sat 8/29 – Monte Vista Lounge – Flagstaff, AZ Mon 8/31 – Pastime Tavern – Dallas, TX Tue 9/1 – Mohawk Inside Room – Austin, TX Wed 9/2 – Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts – Houston, TX Thu 9/3 – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA Fri 9/4 – BottleTree…
Norway’s seminal synthpop band, APOPTYGMA BERZERK, have announced a U.S. tour in support of their recent release Rocket Science. And to show their appreciation for their fans who have been with the band for over a decade, the band will be offering special “Fan Appreciation Packages” for each U.S. tour date (details listed below). With their unique and formidable ability to combine very melodic, danceable synthpop with haunting and powerful…
Recording artist, author and philanthropist Jewel is returning to her hometown of Homer, Alaska to help raise funds for the Bunnel Street Arts Center “Artists in Schools†program. She will headline a solo-acoustic concert on Aug. 19th at Homer’s Mariner Theater. Atz Lee Kilcher, Jewel’s brother, will also be on the bill. The program serves over 1,000 students annually by exposing youth of diverse socio-economic backgrounds to varied art forms…
Ben Esser, the 23 year old pop genius better known to most simply as Esser, is getting ready for his first American tour in September and October, supporting Datarock. His debut album, Braveface (out this fall on Chocolate Industries), is a ten track lesson in pop mastery, peppered with dashes of electronica, early 90’s club bliss, and rhythmic ska and dubhop with massive hooks. Esser has spent much of the…
Melbourne’s The Drones will be embarking on a brief US tour this September, with stops in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. They will also be playing the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in upstate New York. Their latest album, Havilah, was released earlier this year on ATP Recordings. Havilah, like everything The Drones have done, is an album of contradictions, where bombast meets beauty, melancholy wrestles with…
What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying? For WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the…
Metal Mind Productions presents the third live album by Landmarq – one of the leading bands on the British neo-progressive scene! The album entitled “Turbulence – Live in Poland†features a recording of the band’s superb performance at the Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland in November 2005 taken from the Landmarq DVD of the same title. Majestic guitars and keyboards, sophisticated compositions and Tracy Hitchings’ beautiful voice – it’s all…
Abandon Interactive Entertainment today introduced Freaky Fishing as a new addition to the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), Freaky Creatures. Players can now bring their Creatures to lakes all over the Freaky Creatures universe to catch fish, parts, powers, lair objects and other unknown treasures. With the recently announced free to play option, players can now experience the Freaky Creatures universe and try out Freaky Fishing for free by signing…
“Far From Home”, the first DVD from British prog rock band DeeExpus, is finally set for release this coming Monday, 6th July. For an early sneak preview of the DVD, we have uploaded the track “Greed” – on Metal Mind Productions’ channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MetalMindPoland. Andy Ditchfield: “Greed was written specifically as the opening track for Half Way Home and it seemed fitting that we should play it to open…
Producer !llmind has assembled a new remix album featuring tracks by some of today’s best artists. Set to be released by MYX Music Label, The Official !llmind Remix Album, mixed by DJ Icewater of The Pharcyde, contains music by Jay-Z, Common, John Legend, Slum Village, Kanye West, Masta Ace, The Roots, Saigon, Inspectah Deck, and Alicia Keys. The reinvention of Common’s “I Want You” highlights !llmind’s versatility, as the track…
In anticipation to the band’s self-titled EP, out this fall on Paper + Plastick Records, A WILHELM SCREAM have announced a slew of new tour dates across the UK, Europe, Canada and the U.S. While overseas the band will play festival dates, such as the Reading and Leeds festivals, before hitting North America on a club tour that includes a date at Gainesville’s eighth installment of The Fest (more info…
“Spirit is the deathnail for the labored beast that is “post-rock,” revealing the much more alluring potential that always lurked around its sinister corners.” – SPIN “Robert Toher’s reverb-cloaked ethereal wail could nestle easily into a latter-day Radiohead or Sigur Ros track, but that grimly apocalyptic rhythm section suggests Drum’s Not Dead just as much as In Rainbows” – Pitchfork “Spirit is an unrelenting dark Pandora’s Box of Delights” –…
You may think you know what a These Arms Are Snakes live show looks and sounds like… But if you’ve never seen them, I can guarantee that you have no idea. Broken ribs, black eyes, self-induced concussions, and that is on a tame night! Whether this is the first or the fiftieth time you have seen the band play, it’s safe to say that your face WILL BE melted by…
After charity shows in Los Angeles and New York and an appearance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Steve Martin will be hitting the road in support of The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, which currently sits at the top of the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. After a successful run with a limited release, multi-talented Grammy® and Emmy® winning actor/comedian/musician and bestselling author Steve Martin released the album on…
A Skylit Drive has announced that their will touring as main support to Senses Fail this Fall! Lodi, California’s A Skylit Drive is currently on the whole of Vans Warped Tour promoting their sophomore full-length Adelphia, released on Fearless Records in June this year. The release is an epic concept album, and debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at #64. Here are the dates confirmed so far: 09/30/09 Clifton Park,…
BioWareâ„¢, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Dark Horse Comics today announced a new comic book series based on Mass Effectâ„¢, the blockbuster sci-fi action videogame that IGN.com rated the #1 Xbox 360â„¢ game of all time. In Mass Effect: Redemption, the story takes readers through the treacherous events leading up to Mass Effect 2 which opens with galactic hero Commander Shepard having mysteriously gone missing and…
Norwegian extreme metallers PANTHEON I have unveiled the new video for “Serpent Christ,†a track taken from the band’s recently released full-length, Worlds I Create. “Serpent Christ,†which shows PANTHEON I performing amidst scenes of bondage and torture, was directed by Espen Krukhaug, who also worked on the band’s previous video “Where Angels Burn†and features Finland’s Peik Mattheiszen in the role of torturer. Reprising their role of victims in…